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<h1>Announcing Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5 Courtesy Binaries</h1>
Regensburg, Germany -- January 15, 2010
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We are announcing the availability of the Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5 Courtesy Binaries.

Grid Engine 6.2u5 is a feature update release.

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<h1>What's New</h1>

<p><h3>Support for Machine Readable Table Output in SDM</h3>
SDM command line commands now support a machine readable output format. 
This simplifies and eases the integration of SDM and the use of sdmadm commands 
in scripts.
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<p><h3>Slotwise Preemption</h3>
The slotwise preemption allows to configure queue subordinate relationships 
that affect only single slots and not whole queue instances in the subordinated 
queues. Thus, the slotwise preemption provides a means to ensure that high 
priority jobs get the resources they need, while at the same time low priority 
jobs on the same host are not unnecessarily preempted, maximizing the host utilization.
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<p><h3>Topology-aware Scheduling (Job2Core Binding)</h3>
Serial, threaded and parallel jobs can be bound to CPU sockets and cores to
achieve maximum application performance when running under SGE. The new CLI
submission parameter, "-binding", supports a range of binding strategies. The
CPU topology, numbers of sockets, cores and threads available on a machine and
used by jobs is reported as SGE load metrics. This feature is available for
Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris (x64, x86) and Linux (x64, x86) operating systems
which support the CPU core affinity setting and reporting.
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<p><h3>Job Submission Verifiers Java[TM] Language Binding (JJSV)</h3>
The server and client side job submission verifier (JSV) has been enhanced
to support JSVs written in the Java programming language.
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<p><h3>Array Job Throttling</h3>
Array job throttling enables a user to set a self-imposed limit on the
maximum number of concurrently running tasks per job when submitting jobs
with the new "-tc" CLI submission option. This limit can be altered for
previously submitted jobs. 
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The courtesy binaries based on the Grid Engine open source project do not
contain all functionality which are available in the commercial version of
the Sun Grid Engine product. Please go to the <a href="http:/www.sun.com/sge">"Sun Grid Engine"</a>
product pages and get a free 90-day trial version.
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The courtesy binaries are available at:<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/downloads/latest.html">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/downloads/latest.html</a><br>
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A list of fixed problems in Grid Engine 6.2 is available at<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/62patches.txt">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/62patches.txt</a><br>
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The patch installation notes are available at<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/install62patch.txt">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/install62patch.txt</a><br>
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Please send support questions and feedback to the "users" mailing list of
the Grid Engine open source project.<br>
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The corresponding source code tag in the CVS repository has the name<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-weight: bold;">V62u5_TAG</span> (Grid Engine, ARCo, SGE Inspect, Hedeby)
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A snapshot of the sources is available at the <a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ProjectDownloadList">Documents &amp; Files</a> page<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/216/arco-V62u5_TAG-src.tar.gz">arco-V62u5_TAG-src.tar.gz</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/215/ge-V62u5_TAG-src.tar.gz">ge-V62u5_TAG-src.tar.gz</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/217/inspect-V62u5_TAG-src.tar.gz">inspect-V62u5_TAG-src.tar.gz</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/218/hedeby-source_V10_U5_RELEASE_TAG.tar.gz">hedeby-source_V10_U5_RELEASE_TAG.tar.gz</a><br>
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The documentation and release notes are available at<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u5">http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u5</a><br>
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